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Asbury Park PressSun. Feb. 8, 1981 P19 Why Grow Old? Still life artist Peto led parade to retreat From page Fl summer home called Bay Box. It later became a year-round residence and Chickering probably was a frequent visitor though he continued to live in New York while working as an illustrator for Butterick Magazines, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan and numerous other magazines. Chickering was married in 1922 to Carolyn Day and they had two sons, David and Charles.

After retirement, he came to Island Heights in 1963 to live with his sister, Julia, though his wife continued to reside in Swarthmore, Pa. Chickering died April 29, 1970 at Island Heights and his sister died 16 months later. Bay Box has since been sold. SLIM DOWN Press Columnist Josephine Low man says this exercise is great for slimming your waist: Sit on the floor, knees bent, Grasp one knee with each hand. Stretch your torso up and back, still holding onto your knees.

Lower your head backward. Hold for a count of five. Relax and repeat six times at first. ANOTHER ARTIST who summered for many years at Island Heights was Bessie Pease Gutmann, noted for her pictures of babies and small children that were widely distributed in this country and abroad as chromolithographs. She was born in Mount Holly In 1876, daughter of Horace and Margaretta Young Pease.

She married Hellmuth Gutmann, a partner in a printing business that produced the color prints of her work. She established a summer home in Island Heights in 1925 and the balance of the year lived in South Orange. Mrs. Gutmann studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, Chase School, New York, and the Art Students League in New York, where her instructor was Robert Henri. She did illustrations for ads and magazine covers and for some children's books, including Alice in Wonderland (for whom she named a daughter Alice).

Her children, and later her grandchildren, ONE OF THE federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing's best known artists spent his retirement years in Island Heights, where he continued to design first day covers collected by philatelists. Charles R. Chickering was born in Smithville in Burlington County in 1891 and at an early age moved with his family to Philadelphia. His drawing ability in high school won him a scholarship to the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and when he was graduated in 1913 he did his first professional work for Collier's Magazine. During World War Chickering worked as a medical illustrator at Army hospitals in this country and France and after the war became a freelance artist with a studio in Greenwich Village, N.Y.

The Chickering family had bought property on Simpson and Summit avenues in Island Heights in 1894 and established a He was probably staying in Island Heights at the time though he doesn't mention it for early residents of the community recall his visits. Walt smoked a pipe and was "a bluff and hearty extrovert," remembers Mrs. Janice Wheeler of Island Heights. About 1918 McDougall moved into a farmhouse on the Niantic River at Water-ford, in late years living alone. There he died March 6, 1938, at the age of 80, a revolver by his side.

Police said he had shot himself. William McDougall, the owner of the Island Heights cottage, worked as a designer for Durand Co. in Newark and later as an artist with Whitehead and Hoag, a Newark firm that made political buttons and novelties. He was a talented watercolorist and a few of his pictures survive. 1863 defeat In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Gettysburg ended in defeat for Southern forces.

gall created several early comic strips. His fame as a cartoonist grew and in later years he was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. He also became acquainted with Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. George B. McClellan and Alfred Pay-son Terhune.

In "This Is the Life," a book of reminiscences Walt McDougall wrote in 1926, he recalled "my father's rather shabby studio" in Newark where regular visitors included Thomas A. Edison and artists Thomas Moran, George Inness and Asher B. Durand. Little is known of Walt's personal life although his book mentions a daughter Winifred who died in 1892 at the age of 17. It also tells of summer visits to "Boldt's Sea Girt Hotel at Spring Lake" and to Asbury Park in the early 1900s and to purchase of a property at Pleasantville in 1907.

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